How are you doing? We have had two weeks of learning how valuable we are to God. Are you changing your mind about your worth? If you haven’t, keep focusing on your value.
We’re going back to Psalm 139 and explore verses 13-18 today.
Psalm 139:13,14, New Living translation
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—-and how well I know it.
God made you. He formed you in your mother’s womb. He knows every part of your body. He made you perfect. Unfortunately, we live in this world of imperfection, which works on that perfect body of ours. There is pollution of the water and the air; chemicals are placed on our food to preserve it; processed food has many additives; stress is everywhere (the greatest enemy to our human body). But our God knew about this before you were ever born in this space of time. That is why relationship to Him is so important. He will guide you into healthy living. It doesn’t mean you have to spend every waking moment thinking, oh, my did I eat the right stuff, etc. It means you listen to Him and His instructions for you personally to live a healthy life.
In my period of living here on this earth, I see that the greatest friend of healthy living is a life lived in gratitude and thanksgiving, a life of positive outlook on things, regardless of the darkness of the situation. As you listen to people who live a long life of 90 or 100 years or more, the one thing that impresses me about them as they talk is their joy of living and their ease of forgiving others. They let go of “stuff.” They choose to look on the bright side of life.
So, thank God for making you so wonderfully marvelous.
Psalm 139:15,16, New Living Translation
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
God sees you and the victories and the defeats that you encounter. Every day of your life He knows about you. I think that is comforting. There is someone who knows about you and cares about you. He knows your every moment of living. You can trust Him to take care of you. He knew you would be born in this time, and He has made provision for your every need, including healing and health.
Psalm 139:17,18, New Living Translation
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!
God has you on His mind all the time. He thinks about you so much that you cannot even count His thoughts over you and about you. He loves you. He will be with you forever. He is not going anywhere. He will not abandon you or forsake you as others do. He will be there for you every morning when you wake up, during the day, and when you go to sleep at night. You can trust Him. Place your life in His hands, and give Him your physical body for healing. It’s already available for you.